Proverbs 22:28

KJV1611 – Modern English

Do not remove the ancient landmark which your fathers have set.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 19:14 : 14 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess.
  • Prov 23:10 : 10 Do not remove the ancient landmark, and do not enter the fields of the fatherless:
  • Deut 27:17 : 17 Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • Job 24:2 : 2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and feed on them.

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  • Prov 23:10
    85%

    10Do not remove the ancient landmark, and do not enter the fields of the fatherless:

  • Deut 19:14
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    14You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess.

  • Prov 22:26-27
    2 verses
    78%

    26Do not be one of those who shake hands, or of those who are sureties for debts.

    27If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

  • Deut 27:17
    78%

    17Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Prov 22:29
    74%

    29Do you see a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men.

  • Job 24:2
    73%

    2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and feed on them.

  • Job 22:15
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    15Have you marked the old way which wicked men have trodden,

  • Prov 5:7-10
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    71%

    7Hear me now therefore, O children, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

    8Remove your way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house:

    9Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel:

    10Lest strangers be filled with your wealth, and your labors be in the house of a stranger;

  • Deut 22:30
    71%

    30A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's bed.

  • Prov 1:15
    71%

    15My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path;

  • Prov 4:25-27
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    71%

    25Let your eyes look straight ahead, and let your eyelids look straight before you.

    26Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established.

    27Do not turn to the right hand nor to the left; remove your foot from evil.

  • Prov 24:27-28
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    70%

    27Prepare your work outside, and make it ready for yourself in the field; afterward build your house.

    28Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.

  • Prov 23:22
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    22Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

  • Job 8:8
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    8For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their fathers:

  • Deut 24:17
    70%

    17You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as a pledge:

  • Prov 25:6
    70%

    6Do not exalt yourself in the presence of the king, and do not stand in the place of great men;

  • Prov 4:15
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    15Avoid it, do not pass by it, turn from it, and pass away.

  • Prov 22:6
    69%

    6Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

  • Deut 32:7
    69%

    7Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

  • Deut 28:30
    69%

    30You shall marry a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof.

  • 2 Chr 30:7
    69%

    7And do not be like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as you see.

  • Prov 1:8
    69%

    8My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother;

  • Jer 22:13
    69%

    13Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and gives him nothing for his work;

  • Josh 22:27-28
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    27But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before Him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the LORD.

    28Therefore we said that it shall be, when they should say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say, Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings nor for sacrifices, but it is a witness between us and you.

  • Prov 2:20
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    20That you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

  • Prov 6:20
    69%

    20My son, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake the law of your mother:

  • Job 15:18
    69%

    18What wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hidden it:

  • Deut 22:8
    69%

    8When you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you bring not blood upon your house if any man falls from it.

  • Prov 22:22
    69%

    22Do not rob the poor because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;

  • Exod 22:28
    69%

    28You shall not revile the gods nor curse the ruler of your people.

  • Prov 27:23
    68%

    23Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, and look well to your herds.

  • Prov 17:6
    68%

    6Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

  • Eccl 8:2
    68%

    2I counsel you to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard to the oath of God.

  • Prov 24:15
    68%

    15Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; do not spoil his resting place.

  • Job 22:8-9
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    68%

    8But as for the mighty man, he possessed the land; and the honorable man lived in it.

    9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • Deut 8:18
    68%

    18But you shall remember the LORD your God: for it is he that gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

  • Deut 8:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command you this day:

    12Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses, and dwelt therein;

  • Prov 31:3
    68%

    3Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

  • Prov 5:17
    68%

    17Let them be only your own, and not strangers' with you.

  • Prov 20:21
    68%

    21An inheritance may be gained hastily at the beginning, but its end shall not be blessed.